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• Comment by EarthUnit on Mar 01 2009:

  Hi
  I was wondering the other day, how many Jodcasts were down loaded a month.
  Anyway the February extra edition come out and I forgot all about it.

  Tonight I was browsing about and visited Dr Pamela Gay’s web site [http://www.starstryder.com/], and down in the bottom right hand corner is a map showing her visitor locations, which is rather cool (sorry the old hippy in me just come out, man) you just click on it and it shows a bigger map and some more info.

  If any one else thinks this would be “COOL” for the jodcast perhaps we could ask Stuart to “GET IT ON” the home page.

  It’s free (if you have less the 2500 hits per day)
  It’s home page is http://clustrmaps.com/index.htm

  So what do you think ?

• Comment by Nick Rattenbury on Mar 03 2009:

  Hi,

  I think this would be quite fun: but it's up to our webmaster Stuart!

  Cheers,

  Nick

• Comment by Jodatheoak on Mar 04 2009:

  Come on Stuart show us the World?

• Comment by Stuart Lowe on Mar 06 2009:

  Sorry, I've been out of the country for a few days on work with a rather limited internet connection.

  This is interesting. I'd prefer to keep the embed off the front page so that people have the option to send their information to Clustrmaps or not. I'll add this to my list of things to do.

• Comment by leloup on Mar 06 2009:

  Another one like this - especially if you want people to choose to submit their location is CommunityWalk
  http://www.communitywalk.com

  This also allows a variety of markers to be added to the map to show locations of interest.

• Comment by EarthUnit on Mar 06 2009:

  Yep I see your point Stuart, although it only shows what country your from, clustermaps gets your IP address.
  Nice suggestion Leloup, as you said, you can put much more on this one.

  Let’s see what other people think, (or if anyone has any other ideas), and it will give Stuart time to check these things out

• Comment by Stuart Lowe on Mar 06 2009:

  leloup, that sounds like a good alternative. Thanks. I'll look into it at some point soonish. I've got a lot of real work to do before Monday but no doubt I will procrastinate at some point.

• Comment by jr_edge on Dec 04 2009:

  Stuart
  One thing you could consider adding to the Jodcast site is a widget like the Feedjit ones. Go to http://feedjit.com/join for info.

  This gives a real time output of who has connected to the site and from where.
  It is used on another site I go to, http://ballardian.com - look lower right on main page for the output; one shows most popular pages. another shows locations of those logging in and out.

• Comment by Rob_Bowman on Feb 27 2010:

  "where do Joders come from" - nucleosynthesised atoms, of course. Jeez.

• Comment by Stuart Lowe on Feb 27 2010:

  I never did get around to doing anything about this. Sorry everyone.

• Comment by EarthUnit on Mar 01 2010:

  You must of got mixed up in that timey wimey stuff Stuart ? Thanks for a brilliant answer Rob, I’ve waited a year to the day for that :-)

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